Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being paronymous.
- noun The formation of a word from a word of another language by change of termination or other slight modification; the principle involved in such transference of words from one language to another; homosynonymy; isonymy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being paronymous; also, the use of paronymous words.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality of being
paronymous . - noun The use of paronymous
words .
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Examples
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A prime example in this category is Jean-Pierre Brisset, French author of Les dents, la bouche, a poem which is untranslatable due to its reliance on paronymy.
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A prime example in this category is Jean-Pierre Brisset, French author of Les dents, la bouche, a poem which is untranslatable due to its reliance on paronymy.
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The traditional translations of equivocal, univocal and derivative are sometimes brought into English as homonymy, synonymy and paronymy.
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The traditional translations of equivocal, univocal and derivative are sometimes brought into English as homonymy, synonymy and paronymy.
April 2005 2005
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